We've The Prison Policy Initiative has added 26 new reports to the Research Library:

• Which Police Departments Want Reform? Barriers to Evidence-Based Policymaking by Samantha Goerger, Jonathan Mummolo, and Sean J. Westwood, April, 2020
  "Many agencies that indicate interest in transparent, evidence-based policymaking are likely engaging in cheap talk, and recoil once performance evaluations are made salient." Categories: Police and Policing
• Post-release mortality among persons hospitalized during their incarceration Paywall :( by David L. Rosen, Andrew L. Kavee, Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein, April, 2020
  "People hospitalized during incarceration constitute a particularly vulnerable, yet relatively easily identifiable priority population to focus health interventions supporting continuity of care following prison release." Categories: Health impact
• Understanding Violent-Crime Recidivism by J.J. Prescott, Benjamin Pyle, and Sonja B. Starr, September, 2020
  "Although estimates vary, our synthesis of the available evidence suggests that released violent offenders, especially homicide offenders who are older at release, have lower overall recidivism rates relative to other released offenders." Categories: Recidivism and Reentry
• Reforms without Results: Why states should stop excluding violent offenses from criminal justice reforms by Prison Policy Initiative, April, 2020
  "Almost all of the major criminal justice reforms passed in the last two decades explicitly exclude people accused and convicted of violent offenses." Categories: Sentencing Policy and Practices
• Jail Inmates in 2018 by Bureau of Justice Statistics, March, 2020
  "The male jail inmate population decreased 9% from 2008 to 2018, while the female inmate population increased 15%." Categories: Jails
• The Case for Clean Slate in North Carolina by R Street, March, 2020
  "1.6 million North Carolinians, or close to one in five individuals, have a criminal record." Categories: Community Impact
• Contraception need and available services among incarcerated women in the United States: a systematic review by Mishka S. Peart & Andrea K. Knittel, March, 2020
  "Incarcerated women desire access to standard and emergency contraception from carceral health care systems." Categories: Health impact Women
• Long-term consequences of being placed in disciplinary segregation by Christopher Wildeman and Lars Hojsgaard Andersen, March, 2020
  "The results from matched difference-in-differences analyses show that Danish inmates placed in disciplinary segregation experience larger drops in employment and larger increases in the risk of being convicted of a new crime in the 3 years after release." Categories: International Incarceration Comparisons Conditions of Confinement
• Connecting Families: Compelling messaging for prison phone justice campaigns by Worth Rises, March, 2020
  "71% of people support providing families and their loved ones behind bars phone calls at no cost." Categories: Public Opinion Privatization
• Racial Inequities in New York Parole Supervision by Kendra Bradner and Vincent Schiraldi, March, 2020
  "Black and Latinx people are significantly more likely than white people to be under supervision, to be jailed pending a violation hearing, and to be incarcerated in New York State prisons for a parole violation." Categories: Race and ethnicity Probation and parole
• Opioids, Race, and Drug Enforcement: Exploring Local Relationships Between Neighborhood Context and Black-White Opioid-Related Possession ArrestsPaywall :( by Ellen A. Donnelly, Jascha Wagner, Madeline Stenger, Hannah G. Cortina, Daniel J. O'Connell, Tammy L. Anderson, March, 2020
  "Calls for police service for overdoses increase White arrests in more advantaged, rural communities. Economic disadvantage and racial diversity in neighborhoods more strongly elevate possession arrest rates among Blacks relative to Whites." Categories: Drug Policy Police and Policing Race and ethnicity
• The Future of Dignity: Insights from the Texas Women's Dignity Retreat by Texas Criminal Justice Coalition, March, 2020
  "Female incarceration in Texas has increased at more than twice the rate of male incarceration over the past 40 years." Categories: Women
• Demonstrations, demoralization, and de-policing Paywall :( by Christopher J. Marier and Lorie A. Fridell, March, 2020
  "Post-Ferguson protests in 2014 did not appreciably worsen police morale nor lead to substantial withdrawal from most police work, suggesting that the police institution is resilient to exogenous shocks." Categories: Police and Policing
• The National Registry of Exonerations Annual Report by The National Registry of Exonerations, March, 2020
  "Last year saw a record number of years lost to prison by defendants exonerated for crimes they did not commit--1,908 years in total for 143 exonerations, an average of 13.3 years lost per exoneree." Categories: General
• Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2020 by Prison Policy Initiative, March, 2020
  "The American criminal justice system holds almost 2.3 million people" Categories: General
• Data Collected Under the First Step Act, 2019 by Bureau of Justice Statistics, March, 2020
  At year-end 2018, a total of 80,599 people in federal prisons-- or 45% of the BOP population--were the parent, step-parent, or guardian of a minor child. Categories: General
• Five ways the criminal justice system could slow the pandemic by Prison Policy Initiative, March, 2020
  "Given the toll COVID-19 has already taken on our jails and prisons, as well as our society at large, the time is now for federal, state, and local officials to put public health before punishment." Categories: Health impact
• Technical violations, immigration detainers, and other bad reasons to keep people in jail by Prison Policy Initiative, March, 2020
  "We found that across 10 urban areas, the share of people held at least in part for probation or parole reasons ranged widely, from 6% to 58% of the average daily jail population." Categories: Probation and parole
• Treatment Needs and Gender Differences Among Clients Entering a Rural Drug Treatment Court With a Co-Occurring Disorder by The National Drug Court Resource, Policy, and Evidence-Based Practice Center, February, 2020
  "Males had longer CJ involvement, alcohol use, and more needle sharing compared to females. Females reported more trauma, sexual abuse, interpersonal violence, chronic and recent medical conditions, unstable housing, and a lower rate of employment." Categories: Women
• Policing the American University by Civilytics Consulting LLC, February, 2020
  "Since reporting began, campus police departments arrests of black adults have annually increased. Recent reductions in total arrests are due to a sharp decrease in arrests of white adults." Categories: Police and Policing
• Mapping disadvantage: The geography of incarceration in New York by Prison Policy Initiative and VOCAL-NY, February, 2020
  "A relatively small number of areas in New York are disproportionately impacted by incarceration, and high imprisonment rates correlate with other community problems related to poverty, employment, education, and health." Categories: Community Impact
• Recommendations for Addressing Racial Bias in Risk and Needs Assessment in the Juvenile Justice System by Child Trends, January, 2020
  "Because risk and needs assessments may disproportionately impact youth of color, there is a need to improve their accuracy and underlying properties." Categories: Youth
• Time, Money, and Punishment: Institutional Racial-Ethnic Inequalities in Pretrial Detention and Case OutcomesPaywall :( by Brandon P. Martinez, Nick Petersen, Marisa Omori, October, 2019
  "Results indicate that time and money significantly stratify defendants by race and ethnicity, where bond amounts increase time detained, and that time detained in turn reinforces racial inequalities in conviction and incarceration." Categories: Pretrial Detention
• The Race of Defendants and Victims in Pennsylvania Death Penalty Decisions: 2000-2010Paywall :( by Jeffery T. Ulmer, John H. Kramer, and Gary Zajac, August, 2019
  "We find that those who kill white victims, regardless of defendant race, are more likely to receive the death penalty." Categories: Race and ethnicity Death Penalty
• Federal Sentencing of Hispanic Defendants in Changing Immigrant Destinations Paywall :( by Jeffery T. Ulmer and Brandy R. Parker, June, 2019
  "New destinations, along with non-immigrant destinations, sentenced Hispanic non-citizens more harshly, especially the undocumented." Categories: Immigration
• Life Without Parole Sentencing by Brandon L. Garrett, Karima Modjadid, Kristen Renberg, 2015
  "We find a strong path dependency and concentration of LWOP sentences in prosecution districts, suggesting that prosecutorial discretion explains the rise in the use of such sentences." Categories: Sentencing Policy and Practices